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Edward E. Goodale, Arctic explorer who was a sled dog driver for Admiral Byrd, and who went within 300 miles of the South Polye. Hamilton Heard, treasurer of Northeastern Airlines. Ralph W. Hemminger, vice-President of the Bankers Trust of New York. Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Harvard professor of Law and a Civil Liberties leader. Robert I. Hunneman, prominent Boston lawyer and a trustee of Radcliffe...
What is the condition of Russia's oil industry? How much petroleum is being produced? This week Dr. Leonid P. Smirnov, former chief Arctic geologist for the Soviet Union, gives some of the answers in the Socony-Vacuum publication, The Flying Red Horse. As the top oil explorer in Russia from 1925 to 1942, Dr. Smirnov discovered the Arctic fields in the Taimyr-Lena area, and the rich Second Baku basin, which stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic. But in 1949, disillusioned with Communism because "I saw what it was in practice and didn't like...
...expedition was supported while in the field by the Arctic Research Laboratory, operated by Johns Hopkins University, which supplied food, lodging, and equipment to the travelers. The expenses, however, were paid by the Office of Naval Research. Carter said the Navy's interest in the field lay in "finding out how the Eskimos lived without support from the outside world in this unproductive area, in case the Navy has to operate from Barrow...
...turning the big projector around its horizontal axis, the lecturer can light up the sky with the stars of any latitude. Traveling along a meridian from pole to pole, he can take his audience to the Arctic, or south to see Canopus and the Magellanic Clouds...
...scientists, the biggest trouble is that the arctic is a poor laboratory. The very mechanics of existence are too tough to leave time or energy for experiment. So the Army took over the empty laundry in Wilmette. Directed by Swiss-born Henri Bader, snow-and-avalanche specialist, the Army Corps of Engineers turned the three-story building into SIPRE (Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment...